Renowned Assistant Professor of History at University of Wisconsin, Mou Banerjee Ph.D. joins us to discuss the motivations of Britain's Colonization of India and we examine key historic facts and details surrounding their long standing rule over India until its Independence in 1947. Dr. Banerjee's research interests include the religion and politics in India, the history of gender, hunger and food politics, the history of borders and immigration in colonial South Asia. Prior to her appointment at UW-Madison, she was College fellow at the Department of South Asian Studies at Harvard in 2018 and Assistant Professor of History at Clemson University in 2018-19.